Motivation in the workplace. Mapping the Research.

Motivation is one of the easiest concepts to understand but at the same time one of the most difficult to implement. Employees have different particular traits, habits, needs that make them unique. Motivation begins with the way to influence works behavior. The history and development of term motivation is interesting in its own right and needs no more justification than this. The purpose of this paper is to make a short presentation of the history of the term motivation, to define motivation,describe its process and highlight the importance/need of motivation within the organisation. At the second part of this paper is presented/mapped the existing research in motivation. The paper comes to an end, considering the dynamic and multiple character of motivation and proposed a framework for future research. Attention in this paper is paid to character of motivation and the need of its dynamic approach.